Practical Common Lisp Explained

Practical Common Lisp is an introductory book on the programming language Common Lisp by Peter Seibel.^[1] It features a fairly complete introduction to the language interspersed with practical example chapters, which show developing various pieces of software^{[2] [3]} such as a unit testing framework, a library for parsing ID3 tags, a spam filter, and a SHOUTcast server.^[4]

At the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards in 2006, it won a Productivity Award in the technical book category.^[5]

The full text is available online.^[6] In a 2006 Google TechTalk, Seibel presented the book's main points in the context of linguistic relativity (the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis).^[7]

See also

• Common Lisp the Language

External links

• Practical Common Lisp – why did we publish this book?
• Practical Common Lisp

Notes and References

1. Book: Seibel, Peter . 2005 . Practical Common Lisp . Springer Nature: Apress . 978-1-59059-239-7.
2. Web site: Practical Common Lisp . Buss . Frank . 2005-04-28 . Slashdot . SlashdotMedia . 2019-11-26.
3. Web site: Thoughts Reading Practical Common Lisp . H. . Ed . 2005-11-27 . The Blog That Goes Ping . WordPress . 2019-11-26.
4. Web site: A short review of Peter Seibel’s Practical Common Lisp . Staiger . Josh . 2006-02-15 . Josh Staiger . 2019-11-26.
5. Web site: Practical Common Lisp . Siivola . Nikodemus . Upham . Derek . Seibel . Peter . Inoka . Mastenbrook . Brian . Reid . Kevin . Ozten . Kaufmann . Roland . 2004–2017 . CLiki . The Common Lisp Foundation . 2019-11-26.
6. Book: Seibel, Peter . 2005 . Practical Common Lisp . Springer Nature: Apress . 1590592395.
7. Peter Seibel . 2006-05-10 . Practical Common Lisp . Video . English . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/4NO83wZVT0A . 2021-12-14 . live. 2019-11-27 . . Google .